Inara Pey touched upon the second and third statements in her blog. Of the second, "There has been speculation
this relates to certain personal attacks directed towards Ebbe Altberg
through the likes of Twitter. However, it would seem more likely (I
would hope) that this section is intended to address similar attacks
which have been made through the Lab’s own forums, etc., over which they
have full jurisdiction." Of the third, "While I am not a lawyer – and so the following statement is purely
speculative on my part – it would appear that included in these changes
is an attempt to prevent class action suits from being bought against
Linden Lab as a part of the arbitration process:"

My own opinion, Linden Lab could be trying to protect themselves against a class action suit by banned residents, such as the one Intilibber Brautigan was a part of. And of course the Lab has a history of trying to cover their behinds with lines and lines of poorly written legalese that can be interpreted quite broadly, leading to distrust by residents whom have learned to assume the worst at every change the Lab makes.

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Bix I think its a bunch of bs ll is as u say trying to cover there back sides and it is true no one trusts ll and a lot of ppl tak things in there own hands I have played a lot of games in my time and always liked the devs form the games like sto but sence comeing to sl in 2011 I have seen ll do nothing but mess things up in sl I stay in sl cuz of the ppl like u bix that I like but in the time I have been here I have seen sl go from a place where ppl came n had fun at clubs now its more abought sex and if u have a club it wont last if u dont have dancers

Today I had a rather heated discussion with someone who was very displeased about the new TOS and especially the fact that she'd been told to cease her services on her adult sim...Asking what those services were, I was disgusted to find out, they entailed child porn!

My guess? More and more creative ways are being found to make the Lindens answerable, and they're fighting back with this twisting of the ToS. I think that if they truly got backed into a corner, they'd shut SL down in a "If we can't have it no one will" sort of thing.